Originally Posted by
John Nelson
Ryan's website introduces this latest video with this sentence: "Here’s the latest video from Ryan showing his journey from San Diego to Arizona."
Oddly enough, however, the video shows absolutely nothing about his journey from San Diego to Arizona.
It's a little difficult to untangle what has happened, but I have the impression that:
- Ryan cycled his home in LA to San Diego to start the TA trail there
- At some point east of San Diego, he caught a ride to Phoenix. The info I've seen is vague on how much cycling he did from San Diego to Phoenix; there was a mention of a sore knee, etc. I had the impression that most of the distance was by car.
- And then, as we know, he got himself to Deming, NM but not clear whether he started from Phoenix or somewhere else
So maybe he's ridden 450 to 500 miles by far under his own power. A lot more than I've ridden the last two weeks!
Would be great to see him skip ahead via train to New Orleans to give himself a shot at making DC by Jan. 20.